Rehm The Play of Space

Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2507-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Rush Rehm is Associate Professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford University and a freelance theater director. He is the author of Marriage to Death (Princeton) and Greek Tragic Theater.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rehm, Rush

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF FIGURES vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

A NOTE TO THE READER xi

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER ONE: The Theater and Athenian Spatial Practice 35

The Theater of Dionysus 37

The Sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus 41

The City Dionysia: Procession, Sacrifice, and the Secular 44

Inside Out, Outside In: Land, Livelihood, and Living Space in the Polis 54

CHAPTER TWO: Space for Returns 76

The Oresteia: Homecoming and Its Returns 77

Heracles and Home 100

CHAPTER THREE: Eremetic Space 114

Antigone: Desolation Takes the Stage 115

Ajax: Alone in Space, In and Out of Time 123

Philoctetes: The Island eremia 138

Prometheus Bound: The Ends of the Earth 156

CHAPTER FOUR: Space and the Body 168

Hecuba: The Body as Measure 175

Euripides' Electra: The Intimate Body 187

The Bacchae: The Theatrical Body 200

CHAPTER FIVE: Space, Time, and Memory: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus 215

CHAPTER SIX: Space and the Other 236

Persians 239

The Other Medea: Woman, Barbarian, Exile, Athenian 251

CONCLUSION 270

APPENDIX: Theories of Space 273

NOTES 297

BIBLIOGRAPHY 405

INDEX 435

Über Autor(innen)

Rush Rehm is Associate Professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford University and a freelance theater director. He is the author of Marriage to Death (Princeton) and Greek Tragic Theater.